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Never forget the news cycle is 24/7 now. These days I even seem to hear when some dude who was in a set of ads decades ago has died (or maybe for some okay racehorse dying .) It's a new world. -
Yes, but an article about the draft would just one of many a journo would write each year. Recruiters just have to spend probably hundreds of hours doing their research and establishing relationships with potential draftees. No journo would spend more than a few hours doing their research, and no family would spend extra hours also meeting with random journos.
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Yep, and it's funny how each club has multiple professionals with years of combined recruiting experience, every imaginable measurement and meaningful conversations with the candidates to make decisions which could be the difference of a threepeat vs barely reaching finals for years . BUT their painstaking efforts get reduced to a quick write-up by some twenty-something , who also does articles on netball and soccer and barely has 1% of the info or insight the recruiters had. Somehow we're to believe said journo knows better than the experts - take this as a given(!!!)
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I'm sure most people take these things with a grain of salt, especially given a list of likely lads can end up listless, lacklustre duds. But even then does the rating focus on getting early picks OR making the most out of a team's high or low picks? I suspect we did quite well. But if we were marked down for not having #1,2,4, 16 and 23 who cares?
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😂 I've already seen some funny misspellings of Brody's surname. But if you remember... I Hate Our Collingwood Enemy FOR THE MIDDLE LETTERS ...you should be right.
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...and if ever someone makes it to 200 a Ponsford would be fitting. 😂
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I wasnt taking anyone to task. I like the story. I just know there's a huge amount of stuff I don't know and that possibly I missed something about the draft process. There was no vitriol in my post.
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Umm, once we took XT , with the very next pick, wasn't it already too late for any other club to 'intercept'? Certainly if the enemy saw Kosi's face at #5 they could have 'stolen' LSP. But surely not once we had the floor for our own consecutive 'Tracc' picks. No?
Nah! First clause in his contract mentioned this.
Or Dental - short for Transcendental Meditation. Also if he becomes a star 'Tommy-Leigh ' would be amusing.
Well the paternity report said no and in all honesty my memory is not too shabby. Though at times I have to think whether we have a Sparrow or a Swallow.
Which could be misremembered as Matt Tom? Admittedly this is a first-world problem. I'm sure Hawthorn fans weren't calling the future star Matthew Lee once he started making his mark.
My biggest quibble is I'll be calling him Matthew Thomas or Thomas Matthews - whichever one is wrong - for months! Hurry up and get a nickname..... EDIT: Tomato is clever but it's too mundane. Maybe Sauce, Hazmat or, how about, Apostle?
